In general, tcpcall is a packet oriented network
transport based on TCP/IP.
It aims to simplify communication between services using commonly used patterns like:
- Request-Reply;
- Cast;
- Balancing requests between servers;
- Sharding requests between servers.
Main features are:
- packet oriented;
- reuse TCP connection for multiple simultaneous requests;
- connection pools;
- reconfigure on the fly;
- automatic handle of disconnects;
- upstream communication, i.e. when server send some data to connected clients;
- flow control;
- no extra software dependencies - libraries use only standard libraries.
tcpcall usage is limited to local, protected networks -- there
are no authentication and/or traffic ciphering. It was developed
as an interconnect between services.
For now two libraries are implemented: Erlang and Golang. They can communicate together, providing efficient and convenient way to integrate services written on these programming languages.
- For Erlang lib - erlang/README.md;
- For Golang lib - golang/README.md.
Uses FreeBSD 2-clause license. Full text of the License available
in LICENSE file.